7460 Testimonial to the Editor. 



Walton, John, Esq., F.L.S., Knaresborongh, 

 Watson, H. C, Esq., F.L.S. Thames Ditton, Surrey. 

 White, Alfred, Esq., F.L.S. West Drayton, Middlesex. 

 Williams, David, Esq., F.L.S. Wind Street, Swansea. 



Wollaston, T. Vernon, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. King's Kerswell, Newton Abbot, Devon- 

 shire. 



To this Address the Editor has replied as follows. 



" Gentlemen, — It would be untruthful in me to affect surprise, 

 either at the cordial expression of goodwill contained in your Address, 

 or at the value of the present by which it is accompanied. I have 

 long been cognizant of the compliment intended me, and at first I 

 did my best to escape it; positively refusing the use of the * Zoolo- 

 gist' as a medium for publishing and promoting your views, and thus 

 depriving you of the only means of communication between your- 

 selves and that very limited portion of the public to whom my name 

 is Imown. 



" The following paragraphs, reprinted from the wrappers of the 

 ' Zoologist,' will, I thint, establish this assertion. The first dates 

 March 1, 1860, and appears simultaneously with the Hev. Mr. 

 Greene's earliest allusion to the subject : — 



" It must be understood that I take exception to the Rev. Mr. Greene's propo- 

 sition, as conveyed in the second paragraph of his communication. I am scarcely 

 conceited enough to suppose that the motion will find a seconder; but, in the remote 

 possibility of such a case, I beg to say that the ' Zoologist' is not at his service for 

 such a purpose." 



" The second bears date April 1, 1860, and is in direct answer to 

 an urgent request : — 



" My brief note on the subject of the Rev. Joseph Greene's most complimentary 

 prorosition appears to have been regarded by some readers as uncourteous on my part. 

 I regret this should be the case. My feeling against a man's having any complicity 

 in getting up a Testimonial to himself is very strong indeed ; and were the wrapper of 

 the ' Zoologist' ever used for such a purpose, even though in the form of a paid 

 advertisement {verhum sapienti), I should certainly subject myself to unworthy sus- 

 picions. I therefore say, most distinctly, that the 'Zoologist' is hermetically sealed 

 against any communications iheveanent. May T add a word more? I shall be 

 obliged if my friends will abstaiu from writing to me on the subject." 



